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Why Is the 50 Billion-Dollar Divorce Industry Still Socially Antiquated?
The ‘dirty’ word and whispers only added to my emotional puddle
Do you know what’s almost as shocking as the “D” word, aka divorce? The fact that it’s a fifty billion-dollar enterprise. But let’s not stop there. How is it possible this financially robust divorce industry is still socially antiquated?
I mean there have to be others out there like us, right?
What with the fifty billion-dollars and all?
The other, shush, don’t say it…divorcees?
Yet when it happens to you, the unwanted whispers start.
They’re followed by the ‘I’m so sorry,’ ‘What a shame,’ and ‘Do you mind if I ask what happened?’
It’s a pursed-lip conversation. The insinuation of a dirty word or a disease an otherwise ‘happy’ couple would never want to catch. Less they get too close to you. A failure of sorts. Something that hopefully happens to other people.
All this while you have collapsed into a self-made saltwater puddle. Not deep enough to drown you but high enough to keep you trapped there.
